The new Miraculous Shanghai TV special beats French TV station TF1’s historic record, achieving a momentous 58.4% audience share. Disney + has acquired the global rights, including for series currently in production
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, the animated series created by ZAG and co-produced with ON Kids & Family continues to reap success around the world. According to Parrot Analytics data, the series was listed among the Top 10 most popular TV shows on Netflix in the U.S.
The TV premiere of Miraculous Shanghai – The Legend of Lady Dragon beat TF1’s historic audience rating record with an audience of 1.3 million viewers, achieving a 58.4% share among 4-10 year old boys and girls and 32.5% of the female audience. The 4th season of the series launched on 11 April on TF1 and was another massive success, achieving a 47.7% audience share among 4-10 year old boys and girls.
Thanks to the series’ universal popularity, Disney+ (which has over 100 million subscribers) has acquired the global rights (except for Brazil, Korea and China) including for series four and five, which will launch respectively in 2021 and 2022.
The fourth season of the series will drop on Disney Spain and Portugal in mid-May. The Miraculous animated theatrical feature film will start to roll out at the end of 2021. This film is a ZAG, ON Kids & Family and Planeta Junior coproduction with a production budget of $100MM+.
Miraculous™ is everyone’s superhero story. The series is ranked by IMDB amongst the Top 10 Best Animated Shows in the last 20 years; and most recently, was listed among the Top 10 most popular TV shows on Netflix in the U.S. With a massive fan base of young adult “Miraculers,” (ages 15-25), Miraculous has become a digital planetary craze with over 23 billion views on YouTube (authorized and of user-generated content); 150 million downloads of the official Miraculous app, over 200M products have been sold during the past four years, and over 6 million followers on Instagram. Miraculous is the winner of 19 awards, including the 2018 Teen Choice Award for Choice Animated Series and airs in over 120 countries across the globe.
The first of the two TV Event Movies, Miraculous World: New York: United Heroez, scored top ratings on its premiere in fall 2020. In the U.S., the Friday night movie premiere on Disney Channel on September 25, 2020, ranked #1 for the week across all cable TV with Girls 6 – 11, and #1 across all TV in its timeslot in the same demographic; in France, on TF1, the movie.
